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Nynas aids Estonia air base upgrade

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Crude oil company and lubricant maker Nynas recently played a pivotal role in the update of an air base in Estonia.

Nynas product Nypol was employed to resurface runways at the Ämari Air Base. Nypol is a renewable material that contains biogenic carbon to provide an innovative tool designed for the road construction sector, which effectively reduces its impact on the climate.

NATO air policing resumed at the Ämari air base in Estonia earlier this month. Military aircraft at the facility are now landing and taking off on updated runways that have been paved using brand-new asphalt that features Nynas Nypol.

The recent reopening came after a long renovation project valued at over £15 million. The endeavour included the complete resurfacing of 275,000 metres squared worth of runways, aprons and taxiways using asphalt that had been reinforced with the cutting-edge polymer-modified bitumen (PMB) developed by Nynas.

Commenting on the extensive renovation, Nynas sales manager for Estonia, Heikki Tõugu said:

“Nynas is proud to have contributed to such a significant infrastructure project.”

The reopening of the air base comes approximately a year after Swedish company Nynas got a request from construction company KMG Infra, charged with resurfacing the then 14-year-old taxiways and runways – a contract issued by the Estonian National Centre for Defence Investments.

Nypol has already seen successful use in other key infrastructure projects in the Baltic Sea region, including the Öresund Bridge that connects Sweden and Denmark and on Sweden’s High Coast Bridge on the East Coast.

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